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The role of culture in perceptions of psychological disorder and its treatment
(2001-01-03)
Clinical psychology is changing dramatically due to an increased focus on culture. Cultural differences, which arise in part from differences in ethnic background, influence perceptions of psychological distress and its ...
Performance on written problem-solving tasks as a function of emotive versus non-emotive written self disclosure
(1997-11-19)
Evidence indicates that significant physiological changes and improvements in status of health occur consequent to relatively brief episodes of disclosure of distressing experiences. These health-related benefits occur ...
The effects of affirmative action on perceptions of women entering male dominated academic programs
(2001-04-01)
With the enactment of affirmative action policies and the increase of women in traditionally male dominated areas of work and study, it is important to investigate how people perceive women selected under affirmative action ...
The relationship of age, circumstances, and disclosure of sexual abuse to later functioning
(1997-05-01)
The present study examined the effects of age, abuse circumstances, and disclosure of child sexual abuse on current adjustment of adult women. Four hundred and nine undergraduate students at the University of Manitoba ...
Shaping and chaining human limb movement using a video tracking system
(1997-05-01)
Shaping and Chaining are both effective in training new behavior. Shaping, or the reinforcement of successive approximations to a target response, is used to develop novel responses or reestablish responses no longer ...
Choice making and difference making in the perception of control, responsibility, and blame
(2000-09-01)
To assess the effects of choice-making and difference-making in relation to a negative event, 291 university students were randomly assigned to one of four conditions: (a) Free-Choice/Outcome-Difference, (b) Free-Choice/ ...
Family functioning and marital satisfaction reported by women with fibromyalgia, their spouses, and control groups
(1998-01-01)
Fibromyalgia (FM) is a widespread, musculoskeletal pain condition that is diagnosed with greater frequency in women than men. Its history in the research literature is short, although symptoms of the condition have appeared ...
Alcohol abuse and its relationship with poverty and unemployment, a structural equation modelling approach
(1997-06-01)
Poverty and unemployment lead to psychological stress, which results in increased alcohol abuse. Numerous studies including both cross-sectional and longitudinal designs conducted in different countries have focused on ...
Control level, success probability, and control information in a multi-option scenario
(1999-08-01)
Most studies of control have investigated its effects on ratings of control and success on 2-option trials. The present study used 5-option trials in manipulating control level, success probability, and control information ...
MMPI-2 and Rorschach assessments of adults physically abused as children
(1997-05-01)
This study compared the affective, cognitive, and interpersonal functioning of young women who were physically or both physically and sexually abused as children with a comparable sample of women with no trauma history. ...